BP Oman has let a lump-sum turnkey contract to Petrofac Ltd. of the UK to deliver engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning services for a second-phase central processing plant as part of the Phase 2 (Ghazeer) gas development in Oman’s Khazzan field.

A pair of bills have been introduced designed to facilitate US exports of LNG. H.R. 4605 would let exporters begin shipments after completing the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s review process instead of requiring them to wait for US Department of Energy approval. H.R. 4606 would codify...

Eversource Energy, a New England utility and supplier of natural gas, has threatened legal action against the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) if the organization does not back away from citing a study that accuses the company of artificially limiting gas supplies to the region to benefit from...

German-American technology company Younicos has completed the installation and commissioning of an upgraded 36-megawatt (MW) battery-based energy storage system at the site of Duke Energy’s 153 MW Notrees Windpower Project in West Texas. The company replaced previously deployed lead-acid technology...

Less than two weeks after OPEC’s decision to extend oil production cuts, Libya and Nigeria—the only two exempt members of the group—are signaling their intent to raise output next year.
While several ministers at the Nov. 30 meeting of OPEC suggested the two nations had joined the output-curbing...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOC) is investigating the cause of a fire that broke out on Dec. 12 in a major processing unit of its 15 million-tonne/year full-conversion refinery at Paradip in India’s state of Odisha on the country’s northeastern coast.